Richard Bridge:

Given that I (and a lot of other people) don't have the problems that you describe with Norton, I have to assume that it's not Norton as such but other things you are using or doing.

I operate on XP Pro, with Netscape as my browser. I get none of the problems you've described.

It may be your problem has to do with your use of Outlook. I would never use IE or Outlook in any case--not only because they come from MacroHype (and thus almost by definition have bugs) but because their huge installed base makes than a natural target for hackers.

Dave Oesterreich